Listening to George Osborne’s autumn statement over a picnic lunch at my desk today I was struck by the thought that there was a lot of window dressing and deck-chair arranging going on. Wonderful as the Brown-esque [thanks, Olly] tinkerings were, the main message that I took from the statement was that the economic future […]
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In the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed a creeping sensation that I might be more deluded than usual. As befits my historical institutionalist leanings, I tend to think that things look like they used to look, and will look like they look now: not quite homeostasis, but at least self-stabilising. At the level of […]
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Away from the on-going turmoil of the eurozone crisis and the faltering economic recovery, the long-running saga of funding politicians has just seen its latest development. The Committee for Standards in Public Life – set up in the mid-1990s after a series of scandals – has just published its report on party financing. It recommends […]
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Prof. Warleigh-Lack Turkey and the EU – Continuing the Debate Anne Bostanci’s response to my You Tube piece on Turkey’s possible accession to the EU makes many interesting and salient comments. I agree with much of what she says, and I think it’s brilliant that the Politics@Surrey blog can serve to generate debate between us […]
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In Episode 8 of the Politics Pod, Prof. Alex Warleigh-Lack is interviewed on the issue of Turkey’s accession to the EU. This interview is available to watch now on YouTube. Inspired by his expert analysis and in the School’s spirit of open discussion and the complementarity of ideas in a research community, it prompted our PhD student Anne Bostanci to […]
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Prof. Alex Warleigh-Lack joined some of our colleagues (Dr. Cristiano Bee, Dr. Roberta Guerrina and Dr. Luca Mavelli) in conversation about the latest developments in Italian Politics over the last few weeks. Clearly, these are very interesting and worrying times for Italy and Italians. It is therefore important for scholars of European politics to consider […]
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